Priority aeneid translation

necdum etiam causae īrārum saevīque dolōrēs 25

exciderant animō

Even then the causes of her anger and the cruel pain had not yet fallen from her mind

Pallasne exurere classem

Argivom atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto, 40

unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei?

Was pallas not able to burn up the fleet of Argives and submerge them in the sea on account of the offence and madness of one man Ajax the son of Oileus

Et quisquam numen Iunonis adoret

praeterea, aut supplex aris imponet honorem?

Is there anyone who worships the power of Juno anymore, and will anyone, as a suppliant, lay honours on my altar?

Ni faciat, maria ac terras caelumque profundum

quippe ferant rapidi secum verrantque per auras.

If he did not do this, the roaring winds would surely carry off with themselves the seas and the lands and boundless heavens and sweep them through the air.

molemque et montis insuper altos

and set a mass of high mountains over them

regemque dedit, qui foedere certo
et premere et laxas sciret dare iussus habenas.

and he gave them a king who, by fixed agreement, would know how to both tighten and loosen the reins when ordered

aut age diversos et disiice corpora ponto. 70

or drive them apart and scatter their bodies over the sea

insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons.

There followed a steep mountain of water in a mass

Hi summo in fluctu pendent; his unda dehiscens

terram inter fluctus aperit; furit aestus harenis.

Some men hung on the top of the wave; to others the gaping deep showing the land between the waves; the swell raged with sand.

Tris Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet—

Three ships, the south wind snatched up and whirled onto hidden rocks

inliditque vadis atque aggere cingit harenae.

and hurled them aground and surrounded them with a mound of sand.

Unam, quae Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten,

ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus

One, which was carrying the Lycians and faithful Orontes, a huge wave, toppling, struck on the stern, in front of his very eyes

ast illam ter fluctus ibidem

torquet agens circum, et rapidus vorat aequore vortex.

but the sea whirled the ship 3 times in place, driving it aroung, and the swift whirlpool devoured it in the deep

laxis laterum compagibus omnes

accipiunt inimicum imbrem, rimisque fatiscunt.

The joints of the ships’ sides were loosened; they all let in the hostile torrent and collapsed at the seams.

quam Iuno fertur terris magis omnibus unam

and it is said that juno cared for this one place more than all the other lands

don’t forget longe latium!!

a long way off from latium

adparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto,

men swimming appeared scattered in the vast abyss